After 12 years of working at the Silicon Valley technology company, David Schwartz took to Twitter on Friday to disclose how he became a staff at Ripple. This recent update further revealed Schwartz’s expertise and vast years of experience in the crypto and blockchain industry.

On September 17, 2011, he applied for the job via a mail directed to Jed McCaleb, the co-founder of the San Francisco-based cross-border payment firm. In the mail sent to Jed, Schwartz outlined his exceptional crypto-related skills including content writing, adding that he is an expert with the C++ programming language. 

In addition, he highlighted his active participation in the Bitcoin community, revealing that he had the highest reputation on the Bitcoin Stack Overflow site at the time of applying to work at Ripple. 

Responding to the mail, Ripple co-founder Jed McCaleb lauded Schwartz’s skills, stating that he was a good fit for the Lead Software Engineer position. Three months later, Schwartz joined the popular crypto solutions company as the Chief Cryptographer as per his LinkedIn profile.